Allegro 5 api
#include <allegro5/allegro.h> size_t al_ustr_size_utf16(const ALLEGRO_USTR *us)
Returns the number of bytes required to encode the string in UTF-16 (including the terminating 0). Usually called before al_ustr_encode_utf16(3alleg5) to determine the size of the buffer to allocate.
al_ustr_size(3alleg5)